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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "vasudev rao" <anivir@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:58:43 +0530
Subject: pl. confirm

Attention : my greetings and best wishes to concerned authority. Pl. confirm
the reality of the following mail. If true I am glad to help the hemophilia
patients and old aged people in India here.

with regards
M. VAZDEVRAO. M.
0091 40 24240581
0091 99481 63021.


LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMME
FROM NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY HQ.
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD.
LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 31, BRITON COURT,
KEMPSTON PARK, JHB.
TICKET NUMBER: 74454774
SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584
BATCH NUMBER: BT-4478474121P
DRAWS NUMBERS: 6, 7, 11, 21, 26, 37, 44.
AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of
the South African 2010 World cup Bid award INTERNANTIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION
held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 12th AUGUST 2006.You were entered as
dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584 and Batch number
BT-4478474121P.
Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774 that drew the
lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first
category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file
reference
number: IPL/4249859609/WP1.This is from a total cash prize of US
($400,000,000.00) shared among the first 200 Hundred and lucky winners in
this category world-wide.
AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
(100,000,00) companies and individual emails address, as part of our
international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and
addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has
been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is part of our security
measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the
situation by other participants or impersonators, You are therefore directed
to contact your claim agent immediately on receipt of this massage for
quickened and urgent release of your wining fund. His contact
information is as follows:
NAME: MR. James Zulu.
TEL: +27-73-135-8128
EMAIL: jameszulu_0007@yahoo.com
He is your agent, and responsible for the processing and transfer of your
winnings to you. YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS ................. (keep
personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than (1 MONTH)
>From the date of acknowledgement receipt. Failure to claim your fund will be
added to the next 10 Million Dollars lottery promotion. Furthermore, should
there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible. Once again, Congratulations.
FILL THE DETAILS BELOW: REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE SERIAL NUMBERS:
1.TEL:2.SEX: 3.AGE: 4.NAME: 6.ADDRESS: 7.COUNTRY: 8.OCCUPATION: 9. SERIAL
NUMBERS: 10.BATCH NUMBERS: 11TICKET NUMBERS: FILL AND SEND IMMEDIATELY TO
YOUR CLAIM AGENT OFFICE FOR IMMEDIATE TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER OF YOUR PRIZE
MONEY TO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY. Yours Sincerely,
MR K. Williams.

Yours Sincerely,
MR K. Williams.

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